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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?
(a) He does not give it a description.
(b) As a farcical tragedy.
(c) As a sentimental, comic, tragic two-act play.
(d) As a serious morals tale.

2. What were 381 missionaries paid for in 1861?
(a) Converted 1.8 million to Christianity.
(b) Distributing 30 million Bibles.
(c) Distributing literature about birth control.
(d) 1.8 million home visits.

3. What were buskers?
(a) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.
(b) Street performers.
(c) People who hawk wares.
(d) People who are insane but harmless.

4. How were street folk different from patterers?
(a) They were exactly the same; just a different term.
(b) Street folk would try to sell wares along with their entertaining.
(c) Patterers never sold wares.
(d) Patterers used entertainment to sell a product and street folk entertain for tips.

5. In whom does Mayhew say this moral defect is present?
(a) Mentally slow individuals.
(b) He does not specify.
(c) Those not raised in a good home.
(d) Vagrants, vagabonds and criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?

2. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?

3. What did Hemyng define as prostitution?

4. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?

5. What have many tried to do according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

2. What was the difference between a conductor and other street people?

3. What differentiated street folk from patterers?

4. How many prostitutes were there in London?

5. What did conductors do and how did they get paid? What kind of person might become a conductor?

6. What does Mayhew say someone who is unable to work must do and how does he feel about those able to work who won't?

7. What did bus drivers own, what did they do and what other work had many of them done? How often did they work and what did their work prevent?

8. What was a casual ward?

9. What was a "Dolly mop" and who did the author consider one?

10. What was an ongoing problem for the company from conductors and how did the bus companies combat that problem?

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